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My documentary CHAOS ON THE BRIDGE, about the controversial creation of Star Trek: The Next Generation (featuring the original cast: William Shatner, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Denise Crosby, Gates McFadden, John de Lancie and Diana Muldaur), will be available EXCLUSIVELY ON Vimeo tomorrow! Check it out here: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/chaosonthebridge﻿

In what may prove to be a turning point for political action on climate change, a breathtaking new study casts extreme doubt about the near-term stability of global sea levels. The study—written by James Hansen, NASA’s former lead climate scientist, and 16 co-authors, many of whom are considered among the...

But Mr. Trump, in his interview with CNN, went further. “She wanted to pump in front of me,” he said. “She wanted to breast pump in front of me.” In an interview with the Times after the CNN segment aired, Ms. Beck called Mr. Trump’s assertion “just a lie.”﻿

Donald J. Trump on Wednesday called the lawyer who took out a breast pump in front of him during a 2011 deposition a “vicious, horrible person,” even as he acknowledged his angry response to the incident.

"You're ruining the charm of this town ", said the white man with the assault rifle to the unarmed black protester.

"We’re out here to protest the sickening behavior of yesterday,” said Ian McDougal, a Lake Dallas man carrying a loaded AR-15, a concealed revolver and a “Don’t tread on me” flag. “It’s ruining the charm of this town.”﻿

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure."﻿

I think this tends to devolve to a relativist versus an absolutist paradigm argument - which any Phil 101 can give you a ton of reading material on. Good arguments can be made, in many directions and means, for both. Also, beware of taking an absolutist approach to a relativist pedagogy! ;)﻿

AMES, IOWA (The Borowitz Report)—Presidential candidate Donald Trump revealed a little-known episode of personal heroism from his youth on Saturday, telling an Iowa audience that he narrowly avoided capture in Vietnam by remaining in the United States for the duration of the war.“The Cong were after me,” Trump said, visibly stirred by the memory. “And then, just in the nick of time, I got my deferment.”The former reality-show star said he had never shared his record as a war hero before because “I don’t like to boast.”﻿

Jason Fried has a radical theory of working: that the office isn't a good place to do it. In his talk, he lays out the main problems (call them the M&Ms) and offers three suggestions to make work work.
(Filmed at TEDxMidWest.)